Resources

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Information and communication technologies (ICT) policy decisions affect anyone who wants to take advantage of the opportunities that new technologies can offer. Will the national policy favour technology that is state-of-the art but not affordable in rural areas? Will your government provide service subsidies to poor or disabled people? Will your government encourage the development of software that illiterate people can use? All of these are pressing questions whose answers depend on the ICT policy choices made by governments and other official decision-makers.

The APC Monitor has collected resources that help civil society organisations and others understand policy and regulation related to ICT so that you can begin to engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation at national, regional and global levels. Many of the resources are also produced by APC.

Checklists

 WGIG report released in 6 official languages
The United Nations Secretary-General released the Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance and is available on the WGIG website in the 6 UN languages.

 IT Policy in Nepal (2000)

 Summary of Gayatri Spivak's talk on Gender issues
Summary of the Talk to the Gender and Law Thematic Group by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York

 Broadband Policy in India
Recognising the potential of ubiquitous Broadband service in growth of GDP and enhancement in quality of life through societal applications including tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance, entertainment as well as employment generation by way of high speed access to information and web-based communication, the Government of India have finalised a policy to accelerate the growth of Broadband services.
Produced by: Government of India

Lobbying and advocacy tools

 Regional Action Plan and other documents of Asia Pacific WSIS Conference in Tehran, Iran
High Level Asia-Pacific Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) formulated and adopted a regional action plan and an action plan. Civil society organizations (CSOs) reacted vehemently over this action plan that did not include the views and participation of CSOs in its development processes. This regional action plan along with civil society responses are kept here.

Regional Action Plan (English)
Civil Society Response to Regional Action Plan (English)
Civil Society Statement to Working Group, June 1, 2005 (English)
Civil Society Statement to Working Group, June 2, 2005 (English)
Civil Society Statement in the Plenarry Session (RTF)
 

Publications

 UNDP APDIP Releases ORDIG Policy Brief and Input Paper on Internet Governance
After almost ten months of research and activities, UNDP-APDIP's Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG*) has produced a two-part report entitled, "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations".
Produced by: UNDP-APDIP